<p>This from <em>What It Really Takes to Get in to the Ivy League and Other Selective Colleges</em>, by a former Harvard senior adcom:</p>
<p>“As a senior admissions officer, I always placed a more significant value on SAT II tests because these exams are subject specific and can often be considered in context with an applicant’s academic plans. . . [SAT II scores] have a slightly higher correlation with one’s performance in college than those of the SAT I (p. 34).”</p>
<p>This from the classic <em>A is for Admission</em>, by a former Dartmouth adcom (Michele Hernandez): </p>
<p>“Everyone makes a big deal of the SAT I, but don’t forget that the Ivies place equal weight on the SAT II subject tests (p. 18).”</p>
<p>It seems to me, based on these two books, that alpha2400 is basically right. It’s even possible that some adcoms (like Chuck Hughes, the Harvard adcom quoted above) put more emphasis on the SAT IIs than the SAT I.</p>